FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report - 1st Quarter 2017
While a few of these projects indicate they are a \"plan B\" or an
\"attempt III\", many are still hewing to their original plans, and all
have produced impressive results. Please enjoy this vibrant collection
of reports, covering the first quarter of 2017.
--Benjamin [...]

Reader suggestions always make me happy.
Is stockpiling AMD Bulldozer-based hardware from 2012 a good idea for those that care about privacy and security, since those CPUs don’t have PSP/Intel ME?
ECC Memory & AMD’s Ryzen – A Deep Dive. (thanks kerma on #dragonflybsd for this and the previous link)
Scrum makes you dumb [...]

Errata patches for freetype have been released for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
Heap-based buffer overflows can result in out-of-bounds writes.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata60.html
https://ww [...]

After about 4 and a half hours of build time, I have results to share. There\'s 110 .c files in /usr/src/cmd. 85 of these compile and link (it\'s unclear if they run). 25 have a compile or link error:accton, sa (lack of acct in libc)ar, nm, prof, ranlib, size, strip (mismatch between NMAGIC/OMAGIC and ARMAGIC_X)arcv (obsolete conversion (Rea [...]

This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but it hops through a banquet of different operating system activities – wireless, routing, changing systems, etc. You will surely find something to pique your interest.

I just started rebuilding the v7 sources on my Venix Rainbow on a lark. I\'ll post a full writeup, but here\'s a two early things I\'ve learned.First, it takes 1 minute to compile cat.c into cat. Yes, one full minute. On my normal server, it takes .1s of elapsed time. This is a 600x speedup since then, likely more (Read more...)

A tip that might be useful for some readers: Mohammad BadieZadegan posted that he had a poor network connection, and so was having a hard time installing packages. If that bites you too, there are some pkg.conf options – starting with FETCH_TIMEOUT and FETCH_RETRY – that may help.

Kenneth R Westerback of The OpenBSD Foundation (aka krw@, when wearing his dev hat) writes:
Monthly paypal donations from the OpenBSD community have made the
community the OpenBSD Foundation\'s first Gold level contributor for
2017!
These monthly paypal commitments by the community are our most
reliable source of funds and thus the mo [...]

There’s an update for Radeon DRM that matches it up (mostly) to what’s in Linux kernel 4.7.10. If it gives you problems, there’s some workarounds. Remember, this is in DragonFly-current, so anyone running 4.8 is unaffected.

Errata patches for libssl have been released for OpenBSD 6.1 and 6.0.
Incorrect DTLS cookie handling can result in a NULL pointer dereference.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata60.html
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I\'ve taken some time to look at the Venix disks. I\'ve managed to read them all after retrying the read errors enough. I\'ve created new disks and installed it on my system. I\'ll go through all that in a forthcoming post since there\'s lots of fiddly bits.This post I\'ll expose what BSW is. It\'s the Boston Software Works. It (Read more... [...]

An errata patch for pf has been released for OpenBSD 6.1 today.
Details can be found on this page: https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are also available via
the syspatch utility. Note that syspatch uses the mirror configured in
/etc/installurl, so all mirrors may not have the files yet.
Op [...]

We are very happy to announce that the selection process in this year\'s
Summer of Code with its bargaining of slots and what student gets assigned
to which project is over. As a result, the following students will take on
their projects:
* Leonardo Taccari will work add multi-packages support to pkgsrc.
* Maya Rashish will work on th [...]